Culture Round-Up

As we vamp up for our winter vacations, some of us are preparing to hide under the kitchen table for days as our families berate us about why we haven’t gotten our shit together. Let’s savor these last moments with our friends and confidants, and in the meanwhile, catch up on the stuff that’s really important.

We’ve collected some highlights from the past week on agitation, angst and surviving the holiday season:

If you’re in school, dealing with the pressures and trauma of living under a police state, you might be able to get your final exams pushed back. Students of color at Columbia are already doing it. Tufts students, too. Damn, now I’m remembering that the 2012 Quebec student strikers soft-blocked their school buildings, stopping their peers from getting to their final exams...

Sadly, Suzy X’s long-time comic project Best Song Ever for Rookie Mag is playing its last song ever next month. Check out previous installments with the girl band. Moving forward, we wish Suzy good tidings and new projects in the New Year!

Hi all, I'm sad to say my Rookie strip, The Best Song Ever will see its final run this month. Read last month's here: http://t.co/FxHX0kCZPk

We recently discovered the colorful, mall-goth fashion line Adeen by New York City-bred designer Rembrandt Duran is inspired by your favorite Saturday morning cartoons. We have never felt so distanced from the carefree, playful paintball- and cereal-filled lethargy of nostalgic youth, but we can appreciate an aesthetic that embraces not giving a fuck, living life for your friends, and loitering.

If you grew up with an advent calendar, or were jealous of somebody who did, Ann Horel’s pizza advent calendar on Vine will be a good laugh.

With a new kind of caroling, Occupy organizer-turned-Dream Defender Nelini Stamp produced two Christmas songs dedicated to those we’ve lost to police violence – from Sean Bell to Eric Garner.

Finally, there was nothing spontaneous or random about what happened inside the Barclays Center during the #RoyalShutDown demonstration on Monday. Turns out organizers and celebrities like Jay Z and LeBron James orchestrated those N.B.A team players sporting the “I Can’t Breathe” tees we tweeted about on Monday night.

Ripley Soprano is a co-owner and co-conspirator of this here magazine.